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JohnnyFan post=460114 said:
fuchsia post=460113 said:
Putin is an evil genius of a tactician who has played a very bad hand brilliantly.  The thing you don't want to do as a strategy when you have very few cards is to behave so that everyone else at the table is after you.  Age and isolation may have made Putin delusional.
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Agree.....this may not be the "layup" Putin thought.  My guess is he successfully overthrows the Ukranium government and takes over the country.  However, he is burning domestic political capital and further isolating his country economically.  It will be interesting to see how sympathetic China will be to Putin.  
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Not to mention alienating a large % of his population. This is not war they needed to fight. The Ukraine poses no threat to Russia. They will likely win but it will cost them many young lives. History will show Putin to be just another maniacal tyrant. 
 
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kranmars post=460118 said:
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Beast of the East post=460107 said:
JohnnyFan post=460073 said:
Christian Jones update.

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  Putin is an evil genius of a leader, who is an opportunist when he knows there will be little opposition.

Remind you of anybody else?



 
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He does. And my names will be different from yours.

Just a reminder that trying to be slick and drop political innuendos in a post is still being political.

Reminder that all things political are against the rules here.                            Very Well said , Kranmars .    You did the admonishing splendidly . 
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I know this program keeps injury news close to the vest, but any news on Soriano and his knee?
 
I can't believe that Putin would go so far as to impersonate Christian Jones to rile up the Redmen faithful - and we all fell for it.  Pure evil genius.  
 
Can’t teach “length” as they say. Challenging  off season conditioning and skills refinement programs should help Rafael have a nice 22-23 season imo

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Paultzman post=460224 said:
Can’t teach “length” as they say. Challenging  off season conditioning and skills refinement programs should help Rafael have a nice 22-23 season imo

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Very smooth on the court. Looks like a natural
 
Wish he could suit up for us on Wednesday but obviously he can't. Maybe we can stick his bobblehead doll on the court to at least you know help us with our defense.
 
bamafan post=460651 said:
Wish he could suit up for us on Wednesday but obviously he can't. Maybe we can stick his bobblehead doll on the court to at least you know help us with our defense.
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Let the bobblehead take the shots during the last minute of the game, 
 
I’m reading THE BIG EAST by Dana O’Neill ( a real good read so far with some funny lines and stories) and got to Chapter 6, ST. JOHN’S, A TEAM EVEN NEW YORKERS COULD LOVE “Eh, that’s Louie being Louie” , and this expert from the third paragraph hit me like a ton of bricks:

”Led by Carnesecca, St. John’s won two of the first seven league tournaments titles, and earned NCAA Tournament bids in twelve of the first fourteen years, including four Sweet Sixteens, three Elite Eights and a Final Four.”

Man I wish we could be that relevant again!
 
 
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85 how right you are but not just for us who experienced those great years but more so for all the younger fans who never had the opportunity. And the post season record was not really indicative of the truth as we would have had another sweet 16 when we got robbed by the refs in Chicago playing DePaul when Dallas Comegys  stepped over the line and another elite 8 I believe when the refs called the tech on Billy Singleton. 
boys were those amazing years. 
try to tell young fans today about DePaul playing SJU in the sweet 16 , they would never believe you, it is inconceivable how good the Vincentian schools were in the 80s. 
 
It was the time I was coming up and attended school, and it WAS magic.  I don't have illusions that we will soon revisit that kind of success, but I think I would be happy with relevance and competitiveness year in and year out, with the occasional Sweet 16.  
 
SJU85 post=460688 said:
I’m reading THE BIG EAST by Dana O’Neill ( a real good read so far with some funny lines and stories) and got to Chapter 6, ST. JOHN’S, A TEAM EVEN NEW YORKERS COULD LOVE “Eh, that’s Louie being Louie” , and this expert from the third paragraph hit me like a ton of bricks:

”Led by Carnesecca, St. John’s won two of the first seven league tournaments titles, and earned NCAA Tournament bids in twelve of the first fourteen years, including four Sweet Sixteens, three Elite Eights and a Final Four.”

Man I wish we could be that relevant again!
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I just finished reading that book. I loved it! What a great trip down memory lane with Louie and all the other great characters in the original Big East. Highly recommend this to everyone on this board.
 
SJU85 post=460688 said:
I’m reading THE BIG EAST by Dana O’Neill ( a real good read so far with some funny lines and stories) and got to Chapter 6, ST. JOHN’S, A TEAM EVEN NEW YORKERS COULD LOVE “Eh, that’s Louie being Louie” , and this expert from the third paragraph hit me like a ton of bricks:

”Led by Carnesecca, St. John’s won two of the first seven league tournaments titles, and earned NCAA Tournament bids in twelve of the first fourteen years, including four Sweet Sixteens, three Elite Eights and a Final Four.”

Man I wish we could be that relevant again!
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Ah yes, the good old days. I think that one reason  teams like DePaul and St. John’s were so good back then is cause the talent, for the most part,  was still concentrated in the inner cities like Chicago and New York and while some players would always get away, there was enough for the local colleges to get their share. 

Today there is still talent in the cities but the prep schools (from mostly down south) with pipelines to the Blue Bloods come in and swoop the top talent away, leaving little for the taking.

in these times, a Malik Sealy or Mark Jackson or Walter Berry would most certainly be given a sizable stipend to attend such prestigious high school basketball factories.  
 
Jermane Attoil post=460724 said:
in these times, a Malik Sealy or Mark Jackson or Walter Berry would most certainly be given a sizable stipend to attend such prestigious high school basketball factories.  
 
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Vs. the stipends they received to stay at home back in the day.
 
MainMan post=460727 said:
Can all of us just admit that Bucky Waters was right all along?
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For those of us 'youngsters' who only remember Bucky Waters as one of the worst analysts to ever call a game, can you elaborate?
 
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